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This is an anthropological study of the Icelandic world. It explores the features of Icelandic society, culture, tradition and ideology in the 20th century.続きを読む

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an interesting study... gives food for thought. * Regis Boyer, European Review, Vol.8, No.1, 2000 * When Hastrup actually writes about the Icelandic world ... she produces real insights into the ways in which Icelanders conceptualize themselves and their land. - Carolyne Larrington. Times Literary Supplement. 8/1/1999 This book has much to offer to students of Iceland, ethnographic practice and anthropological theory. A place apart is, in my view, the best volume in Hastrup's triology on Iceland and anthropology. Her theorising is not only more mature, coherent and humanistic than in her earlier volumes, it is blended with perceptive ethnographic observations and analyses in language that is generally clear and accesssible. * Gisli Palsson, Social Anthropology, Vol.8/1. * she convincingly argues that much of her material suggest that Icelanders have tradtionally refused to separate myth and history, pointing out that such a position is summarised in the concept of saga. Second, the chapter on landscape provides an excellent analysis of the phenomenology of spatial relations and Icelanders' attachment to both land and sea. Finally, Hastrup's portrayal of the food ritual called porrablot as a kind of Babette's Feastis both entertaining and perceptive. * Gisli Palsson, Social Anthropology, Vol.8/1. *続きを読む